As any one could be.

Then spak her cruel step-minnie,

"Take ye the burning lead,

"And drap a drap on her bosome,

"To try if she be dead."

They took a drap o' boiling lead,

They drap'd it on her breast;

"Alas! alas!" her father cried,

"She's dead without the priest."

She neither chatter'd with her teeth,